Angie’s past it’s getting revealed. She dropped out of college and joined a group of eco-terrorists of whom Patrick Logan was the leader. Angie falls in love with him and builds him a bomb. This is how someone got killed and she got burned on her back. Now, Patrick wants her to build another bomb. Gaby shows up at Angie’s wanting a recipe for lasagna and meets Patrick who introduces himself as Angie’s brother.

Later, Danny shows up at home – Patrick had sent him a text from Angie’s phone. Patrick ties him up and tells him he wants to have a father/son relationship. He also uses the threat of killing Danny to get Angie to build the bomb. While she’s building the bomb, Gaby shows up with a pan of lasagna that she wants Angie to try. Angie takes it to get a piece and hides a note inside the pan. Gaby takes it back and throws it in the trash without finding the note. Gaby gets up in the middle of the night and finds Juanita and Celia eating the lasagna out of the trash and Celia spits out the note, which is actually still legible: “Danny and I held hostage. No police. Get Nick”.

Mike has a bunch of clients who haven’t settled their bills so Susan decides she’s going to get them to pay up. She uses some interesting tactics to get people to hand over the money – mostly lots of threatening – it isn’t pretty. She gets the money but there’s more bad news – the IRS is knocking on the door. Susan tries to bully the IRS agent, but gets more penalties instead of an extension. They decide to leave Wisteria Lane and rent out their house.

Orson, Bree and Andrew are brainstorming ways to get rid of Sam. Since Orson feels he’d be useless in a fight, he suggests they pay Sam off. Bree gives him the check, but Sam tears it up when she tells him he’s not really part of the family. He also vaguely threatens her. In retaliation, Bree brings in a couple of retired police officers – big retired police officers to intimidate him, while having tea and scones. Sam tucks his tail and runs. Bree is quite proud of herself, but Sam’s not quite finished with her. He returns and tells Bree that at the dinner party Bree threw for Sam, apparently Danielle spilled the beans about how Andrew ran down Carlos’s mother, Juanita “Mama” Solis. Now Sam wants Bree to turn over her entire company to him or he’s going to tell his cop friends.

The police show up at the Scavo’s to tell them that Irina is dead. They want to talk to Preston about it and Eddie overhears from upstairs. Eddie decides to move out, telling Lynette he needs to be at home when his mom gets back from her “bender.” Lynette tells him how lucky his mom is to have a son like him. She hugs him and he laments about how different he might have been if she had been his mom. Preston is cleared by the police. While leaving the police station, Lynette overhears that the police found the body of Eddie’s mother. Lynette goes to Eddie’s house and Eddie tells her he just spoke to his mom. Lynette believes him at first, but then she figures it out. Eddie locks the door.

“The Ballad of Booth” is the 133rd episode of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. It is the twenty-second episode of the show’s sixth season and aired on May 9, 2010.

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